The J Crew

The teams can still do a sign and trade after an offer sheet is signed. It's more of issue of finding a way so it's beneficial for both teams. Like the team signing the player to the offer sheet might want to get off some salary. The team losing the player gets something. Main thing on a sign-and-trade is the team receiving the S&T player is hard capped for the season. Can't go above $143Mish in salary. So they lose flexibility.

RoCo’s last big contract days are over.

Not for me, but the pro Justise crowd on this board sure did.

Kinda playing. They added him to the Ignite team to teach the young guys how to be a pro. Good move for Jack if he wants to start a coaching career.

And Jack hasn't played in the league since 2018, lol. It's GTF, gotta consider the source.

Because anytime you can trade 3 rotation players on decent contracts for a soon to be 31 year old who last year averaged 8.5 points and 6.7 rebounds while shooting only 40% from the field, having his worst season since his rookie year, well, you just gotta do it.

Tomorrow starts free agency. Guesses on what happens? Surely better than the draft predictions last week. Kyle Lowry - Goes to the Heat in a sign-and-trade. Maybe 3 way sending Goran Dragic to the Mavs. 3 years / $78M. Conley - Re-signs with Jazz. 3/ $70M. CP3 - Stays in Phoenix. 3/$90M. John Collins - Stays with Hawks. 5/$130M. Jarrett Allen - Stays with Cavs. 4/$76M. Lonzo Ball - Signs offer sheet with the Bulls. 4/$88M. Pels do a S&T. Sato or Colby White go to Nola. Gary Trent - Stays in Toronto. 3/$48M. Evan Fournier - Goes to Knicks. 3/$54M. Spencer Dinwiddie - Goes to the Wiz in a S&T. $/$72M. Lauri Markkanen - Rumors of a S&T with the T'Wovles. But he's too perfect a Spurs signing. Spurs offer sheet of 3/$48M. Bulls don't match. Kelly Oubre - No idea. Knicks have the money. 4/$64M

Knicks could take him into cap space. But Knicks don't have a trade exception to my knowledge, certainly not one worth $18M.

Do we have an open roster spot to sign anyone?

Nope. Gives us the right to match any offer. Gives us the right to sign and trade. Tillie can accept and he's on the roster. Also Grizz can withdraw the QO up to a certain date. Tillie and Aldama seem to duplicate each other. Both stretchy 4/5s. Maybe Kleiman had more "intel" that another team was about try to sign Tillie?

This made no sense at first since Joseph is a really good backup point guard. But at $12.6M, he's overpaid. Then looked it up and Joseph has a $2.4M buyout, so the Pistons save $10M by waiving him. Joseph is a Clutch guy, probably ends up with the Lakers.

Every strip club in Atlanta is rejoicing. A whale is coming to town.

Nuance is lost on the lead sunshine pumper.

"Unlike 2nd rd contracts which . . . become Unrestricted" GTF, it's truly impressive how you can consistently be so wrong, and never seem to care or show any shame about it. So 2nd rounders become unrestricted? We get you will make up anything to support Kleiman, but that would be a surprise to the 30 teams in the NBA. I'm sure Gary Trent Jr., the 37th pick in '18, and Devonte Graham, the 34th pick in'18, will be glad to hear they are actually Unrestricted Free Agents next week, instead of Restricted Free Agents as they are listed by SI and every other media enterprise. https://www.si.com/nba/2021/07/27/2021-nba-free-agency-rankings-top-50 Also UNDRAFTED Duncan Robinson who signed with the Heat out of the G-League and undrafted Kendrick Nunn. listed as the 11th and 27th best FAs on this listed, will be glad to know they are likewise Unrestricted. Gives them a lot more bargaining power. Gives SI and ESPN got their lists wrong, they have them both listed as Restricted FAs. Like I have asked before, are you ever right about anything?

HoopsHabit grade for all 30 teams. Re Memphis, sunshine pumpers hardest hit: